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A Communicative Grammar of English By Geoffrey Leech Jan Svartvik. A Communicative Grammar of Englishhas long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition provides up-to-date and accessible help to teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Part One looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, such as ‘formal’ and ‘informal’, ‘spoken’ and ‘written’; Part Two focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure and Part Three provides a handy alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar. A new workbook,The Communicative Grammar of English Workbookalso accompanies this edition. Link DOWNLOAD

A Practical English Grammar By Thomson and Martinet’s classic intermediate grammar for foreign learners is the most widely used book of its kind. It is popular because its explanations are clear and because it deals thoroughly with the topics which students find most difficult. Link DOWNLOAD

The Teacher's Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic education, this concise and accessible book provides the necessary background knowledge required in the classroom context. There are detailed chapters on the nuts and bolts of language: words, morphology, sentences, phrases, verbs, and clauses. Other important educational issues concerned inthe teaching of English are discussed: the grammatical variation that differentiates standard and non-standard English how grammar varies in relation to the purpose and audience of a text and the different grammatical characteristics of different languages. Throughout, illustrations are given using examples from the real spoken and written language produced by learners.

There was a time when good writing would be defined simply by adverting
to a few literary classics. That kind of strategy is less helpful these
days, when so many different styles and voices clamor for attention.
What Is Good Writing? sets the terms for a contemporary debate on
writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and
the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of
fluency in language generally. The utility of defining good writing as
fluent writing in this sense C on a par with the typical fluency in
speech attained by normal adults - is demonstrated by the progress it
permits in evaluating the success of current writing programs in school
and university, which for the most part have proved unable to deliver
writing assessments that are both valid and reliable. What Is Good
Writing? indicates an alternative approach that rests on a more
scientific footing and shows why reading is key and why standard
composition program…